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Oklahoma County and Tulsa County will soon be home to large-scale coronavirus vaccine sites known as mega-PODs.
The Oklahoma City-County Health Department and Tulsa Health Department announced separately Thursday they are working with The White House to create mass vaccination sites in the state s two most populous counties. Officials have been calling their vaccine clinics PODs, or points of dispensing sites.
Dr. Patrick McGough, OCCHD s executive director, said the partnership will create what is known as a mega-POD. This POD in partnership with the state of Oklahoma, the Oklahoma State Department of Health and the National Guard will have the capacity to vaccinate up to 6,000 individuals per day in [Oklahoma] County. And this will be for six to seven days a week, said McGough.
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The Oklahoma City-County Health Department announced that in an effort to continue to vaccinate residents ages 65 and older, the department is partnering with Mercy Health System to make about 5,600 appointments available outside the state’s scheduler portal this weekend.
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Local health officials say they could vaccinate more people if more supply was made available. (Photo by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Unsplash)
OKLAHOMA CITY – The fact that the Oklahoma City-County Health Department and the county’s large hospital systems have managed to administer more than 55,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine since Dec. 14 is all the more impressive when considering the challenges faced in obtaining and distributing the vaccine, members of the Oklahoma City-County Board of Health said Thursday.
“This is an ever-evolving situation,” OCCHD Executive Director Patrick McGough said during Thursday’s board meeting, held at the NE Regional Health & Wellness Campus at 2600 NE 63rd St. in Oklahoma City. Often, information received in the morning regarding how much vaccine is coming has become inaccurate by tha